overbearingness
Example Sentences
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On Saturday at the Eisenhower Theater — a space certainly better suited to Handel’s scale than the Kennedy Center Opera House — we got a lot of good, slightly overearnest singing.
From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2017
Watching an actress of Hunter’s caliber in a meaty leading role partly compensates for the creaky plot and overearnest tone.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2017
This hyper-stylization—the heady rhythm of the fast-flying dialogue, the pre-ordained double cross, the cynicism—keeps the overwrought and overearnest in check.
From Slate • Dec. 4, 2013
American scholarship is condemned as prolix, overearnest and trivial.
From Time Magazine Archive
The overearnest person dislikes this type of humor and reacts against it by calling it "in bad taste."
From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham
